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Lost woods : the discovered writing of Rachel Carson
- Title
- Lost woods : the discovered writing of Rachel Carson / edited and with an introduction by Linda Lear.
- Author
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1998]
- ©1998
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lear, Linda J., 1940-
- Description
- xiv, 267 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Here is a trove of Carson writing never before published or collected, uncovered by Linda Lear, author of the recent and acclaimed Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Included are examples of her early and often remarkable nature writing for newspapers and for the Fish and Wildlife Service; journal observations on shore life; letters, including the "Lost Woods" correspondence concerning her efforts to save land in her beloved Maine, and another, written to her physician near the end of her life, that reveals Carson's fight to be told the truth about her cancer even as she was working to expose the hazards of pesticides. Lost Woods also creates a vivid record of Carson's activism. In talks to national groups, she gives astute early criticism of the ties between universities and chemical manufacturers, and skewers her critics with still-timely precision."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The Concord library
- Uniform Title
- Concord library
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Undersea -- ch. 2. My favorite recreation -- ch. 3. Fight for wildlife pushes ahead/Chesapeake eels seek the Sargasso Sea -- ch. 4. Ace of nature's aviators -- ch. 5. Road of the hawks -- ch. 6. Island I remember -- ch. 7. Mattamuskeet: a national wildlife refuge -- ch. 8. Memo to Mrs. Eales on Under the Sea-Wind -- ch. 9. Lost worlds: the challenge of the islands -- ch. 10. New York Herald-Tribune Book and Author luncheon speech -- ch. 11. Jacket notes for the RCA Victor recording of Claude Debussy's La Mer/National Symphony Orchestra speech -- ch. 12. Remarks at the Acceptance of the National Book Award for Nonfiction -- ch. 13. Design for nature writing -- ch. 14. Mr. Day's dismissal -- ch. 15. Preface to the second edition of The Sea Around Us -- ch. 16. Our ever-changing shore -- ch. 17. Four fragments from Carson's field notebooks -- ch. 18. Edge of the sea -- ch. 19. Real world around us -- ch. 20. Biological sciences -- ch. 21. Two letters to Dorothy and Stanley Freeman -- ch. 22. Lost woods: a letter to Curtis and Nellie Lee Bok -- ch. 23. Clouds -- ch. 24. Vanishing Americans -- ch. 25. To understand biology/preface to Animal Machines -- ch. 26. Fable for tomorrow -- ch. 27. Women's National Press Club Speech -- ch. 28. New chapter to Silent Spring -- ch. 29. Letter to Dr. George Crile, Jr. -- ch. 30. Pollution of our environment -- ch. 31. Letter to Dorothy Freeman.
- ISBN
- 0807085464
- 9780807085462
- 0807085472
- 9780807085479
- LCCN
- 98020058
- OCLC
- ocm39013712
- 39013712
- SCSB-539311
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library